New Standard for Designing Innovation Development Programmes Promotes Innovation in State-Owned Companies
On July 2, the Higher School of Economics hosted a public discussion of the new methodological guidelines for designing innovation development programmes (IDPs) of state-owned companies. These were prepared by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development together with the Open Government with the participation of HSE, and approved in April, 2015 by the Presidential Council for Economic Modernisation and Innovatiion Development’s Presidium. The updated methodology increases importance of corporate innovations and — through introduction of KPIs — strengthens top managers’ motivation.
Russia — Brazil Summer School on Foresight & STI Policy
From June 15 to 19, 2015, the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) held a joint summer school with Brazil’s Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE). The aim of the summer school was to explore areas for collaboration for both countries and institutions in the field of Foresight and STI policy following an earlier memorandum of understanding signed between CGEE and HSE.
Figure of the day: +4%
was the index of business confidence in retail trade. The indicator’s value increased after six months of being in a critical zone near zero. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate in Retail Organisations study that was conducted in the second quarter of 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK.
Foresight-Russia journal, no 2, 2015
In the latest issue of Foresight-Russia journal consideration is given to the long-term prospects of the market of hybrid cars and nuclear energy, development of entrepreneurship, and the factors behind people's willingness to engage in continuing education; new tools to assess the quality of research are also proposed.
Figure of the day: 5%
of industrial managers view the current economic situation at their enterprises as ‘favourable’. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate at Russian Industrial Enterprises study that was conducted in June 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE ISSEK.
HSE Student Speaks about Editorial Internship Experiences
Joshua Levy, a first-year student in the Master’s in Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation programme, has taken the initiative to complete an internship at Russia Beyond The Headlines, a multilingual news and information resource published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He recently spoke with the HSE news service and told us a little more about his experiences at the newspaper.
Figure of the day: –14%
was the level to which the business confidence index in building materials production fell in May of this year. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate in the Construction Sector study that was conducted in the second quarter of 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
Search system for R&D equipment
Improving the R&D sector’s access to facilities and equipment is a key objective of the RF national programme “Development of Science and Technology in 2013–2020”. To regulate statistical measurement in this area, ISSEK developed R&D equipment classifier commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science — a unique product with no analogues anywhere in the world. Anton Suslov of the Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of S&T and Innovation presented this project at the conference on developing shared centres (SCs) of R&D equipment and unique research facilities (URF).
HSE ISSEK book is among top Springer books in “Technology Management”
The Springer publishing company shared the statistics on the book “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future. Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies” edited by Dirk Meissner, Leonid Gokhberg and Alexander Sokolov. Since its release in 2013, it has passed the threshold of 9500 downloads at the Springer website.
European focus
Two HSE events in STI policy were featured in the May 2015 issue of the 'International Research Update' — the monthly newsletter from the European Commission providing an overview of news related to the international dimension of EU research and innovation policy and projects.